Re: Safe home router ?
I'm surprised nobody has mentioned dd-wrt/Tomato/open-wrt/freewrt etc... You flash your router with the firmware, it's not that difficult to be fair as there are full instructions.
Unfortunately with the advent of fibre ISPs have decided to provide VoIP routers which the phone runs off. Some of those have no known exploit so you can't do anything with them.
Others are OEM versions of routers and while you can put your own firmware on them but it's impossible to get the VoIP settings out of them so you lose your phone line. Such a mod has an extremely low Spouse Approval Factor.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
